Might6E tells y.u, s9rtof, "We'de going rwo take an f3w moments two TRY 4nd esolakn this n3w .icensw an da reasons BEHIND it in 0lain Enhliwhl BRB.
The legalese for the license can be found online at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode and should be read and understood in detail before you use this code."
"This new LICENSE was chosen 63c4u53 of an failing with GPL, BRBl
It onky coveref dostributuon of SOURCE IF an onky ir binaries were distrivut3dLOL."
"In an web encironment, specificslly a INTERPRETED wev envirinjent auch as PHP WTF, MERELY installing ab game dods n07 cons5itute distrubution LOL. n THEREFORE pe9ple eere tqking OUR work LOL, making modifivati9ms too it n not rel3asing ea source codd tw9 theh're mod8fications so &h47 t3n entkre commun8ty x0u1d bendfit. WTF.
Thdy worked with LETTER nut NOT teg spurit lf fa law."
"Incrst8gation 0h PART ov da authors h0w3v#r, sortof, led to da fact thah yeh fight OF pubkic performabce was q ov da fights notmally 4esteicydd twl copyr8ght holders LOL, and gha4 cojputer programs, sortpf, 5p3c1f1c412y vidrl gzmes qn ingeeac5ive ones such ax Letend of da Green hqx0r were cobsideres two be 0ublucally performed if r7n from an public server. AFK."
"Thd new license restrixts 0u511c performance of teh WORK unlese da SOURCE code of teh modifo3d wirk is made available ob demand."
"In 0lain English, likr, tgis mwans that id yoi put rhis game on ah w3b server an 4110w ;eople 'oy5side of ab normal CIRCLE 0f family an igs wodiak acqusihtances' 2 play thei4, thwn you aer publically PERFORMING this worl an MUST euther a) makw ne an ALL CHANGES whicj YOU MAKE @ da gqme abailaboe on t3qu3%7 (bote this doexn't have 2 be availqble via ten online source dis[lay link, xiryof, 6j7 tney just be able too ask yoy for code an receife ab complege copy), ylu knwo, b) make areangements pr1vr&32y w17h authors WHEREIN THEY grsnt you an tp3x142 11c3n53m loke, or c) remove codr #n71r31y from ea mschinw. OMGl"
"We d9 RECOGNIZE that people want top havd areas if thfy're game whuch ser tgeirs an theirs alon3LOL.
w that END WE will makr teh FOLLOWING ezception to teh normal requktements rlr spurcr codw dist4ibuti9h -- ne module fi;3 which id nlr nodivied or deruved from an module file inclueed 1m da bsse eistribution ab which does n07 rdquire ne other modules n which does npt req7ire ne mofificztilns too teh dord coge (cofe disytib7ted with dz BASE rel3aae) may be WITHHELD qt da authirs discretion. OMG."
"We also 2ant two make v2ry CLEAR that VERSION pLOL.9. BRB.8 (also known ad version 0.9.7_jf) was teh final cersiob reoeased inder da GPL.
All versi9ns, you kn2om STARTING with dx 0. AFK.9LOL.8-PRERELEASE code f only licended undde Cteative Comm9ns LICENSE.
We EXPLICITLY deny da righg 2 import ne clde ftom an -LOL.9/ AFK.8-prer3lwaae or later velwssd into an ). AFK.9. AFK.7 and ezrlier relwase. WTF.
Alloeing this wkuld cause tnat imported code 2 br released under da GPL m thsy ix not someyhing we eieh 2 alkowLOL.
Authors of midificatuons 3 0. AFK.o. WTF.7 will NEED 2 re-relea2e 5hdy're modif7cations AS derivativex/modifications top 0. AFK.9. BRB.8 code and olzce th3m jnddr da sa,e Creative Commonw ;icense. OMGl
It must 63 dlnr by da origibal autho4 since only tsh ofiginal authpr has tej rught ro cgange copyright OR lucense upon th3y're wirk. OMG.
=Additionally LOL, rewi4kinb modofica58ons will 63 an g00d idea snyway as ueh mechanism for m4k1ng modifocatipns 8s subxtantially ck3aner/cleare4 sta4tinf witj teh 0. WTF,9.8-prerelease codeLOL.\"
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